As Dan Tri reported, last August, Mr. N.V.N. (59 years old) was diagnosed with bilateral kidney stones by Bac Tan Uyen District Medical Center, Binh Duong Province and transferred to Binh Duong Provincial General Hospital. Mr. N. has 100% health insurance and is a veteran.
According to Ms. M. (Mr. N.’s daughter), before her father’s surgery, she was given a list of Long lists of medical supplies and had to buy them at private pharmacies outside the hospital. A week later, Mr. N. went for a follow-up examination and was informed that he had to continue surgery to completely treat kidney stones.
Like last time, Ms. M. had to buy a series of things for her father herself. Even bed sheets included. According to this person, the total cost of self-purchased surgical instruments from outside was about 12 million VND and all of them had no invoices and were not on the list of supplies declared to enjoy health insurance benefits.
“I don’t see anything that health insurance brings, I just see pressure and annoyed”
In fact, Mr. N.’s case in Binh Duong is not rare. After the article Going for kidney stone surgery and having to buy bed sheets yourself: “What’s the point of having health insurance?” was posted by many people. comment and share about your own experiences when examining or taking family members for medical examination with insurance at medical facilities.
“Each time of medical examination and treatment, health insurance only pays very little, the reason is “This medicine is not covered by health insurance.” On November 4, I went to the doctor because I had a bad cough due to gastric reflux, a very basic disease. The total cost I spent was 590,000 VND. Health insurance only paid 60,000 VND” reader <. strong>Thanh Binh Hoang comment.
“If you go to the hospital and use health insurance, it’s like you’ll get sick. If you use the service, it doesn’t matter how good the medicine is. There’s no shortage, but if you use insurance, the doctor always doesn’t forget to tell family members to go to this counter and that counter to get the medicine the doctor prescribed,” Mr. Nguyen Tuan commented.
“That’s it. is just one of countless other patients who show that health insurance doesn’t really bring anything but just feels pressured and annoyed. I’d rather not have it voluntarily and feel more comfortable than having health insurance” account owner van truong frustrated.
“These things are normal, it’s just about the patient’s clothes You also have to rent for one day at the same price as buying a whole set. Bored but don’t know what to do. Insurance only covers a few cheap drugs, but the rest still have to go to the pharmacy to buy and bear the costs yourself. “I don’t understand what health insurance is for” user Quyen Nguyen is upset.
Besides the annoying opinions, many people also share “half-crying-half-laughing” situations when sending people himself went to the hospital. Commenting on the experience of taking his child to the emergency room, account owner MrCuongva Em said he took his child to the emergency room but had to buy his own intravenous needle, one of the minimum and essential items. at the hospital so the doctor could insert the plug for his child. Similarly, Trung Le Quang also had to buy his own needle and tape to give the solution to his child.
More difficult, readers Dong Ho said: “Because the hospital said it was not available, my family had to run all over Hanoi to buy about a dozen items for a family member having surgery at K Tan Trieu Hospital (Hanoi). Luckily, my brother-in-law drove me all afternoon, and an acquaintance showed me how to find it everywhere. When I finished shopping and returned to the hospital, my loved one had already been taken to the operating room.
After the surgery, the hospital didn’t ask any questions about the items I bought. In the end, I had to sell it to a patient in the same room because they didn’t know where to go to buy it. Try asking about many cases in the countryside and mountainous areas where they don’t know anything, so where can they find it?”.
In a similar situation, reader Than Minh Triet shared: “My brother In the case of a severed finger accident, when going to the hospital in Chau Doc (An Giang) for emergency treatment, they had to buy tetanus injections themselves. During surgery, the family had to buy their own plastic tubs and paper pulp… For the entire treatment period, only painkillers were provided by the hospital. Give me a drink and buy the rest yourself. There are needles and syringes that you don’t have to buy, but they’re not on the list of health insurance benefits, so you have to pay 100%.
“The last-level hospital still lacks supplies, what is the provincial level”
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In addition to the wave of discontent, many people also expressed sympathy and understanding for the difficulties that hospitals are facing in the context of equipment bidding activities at public hospitals has been tightened, especially after a series of recent scandals involving health sector officials, many hospital leaders have shown caution and are very careful about purchasing equipment for their units.
Article This leads to a long process of equipping the hospital, lacking pharmaceuticals and medical supplies and not being able to meet the needs of a large number of patients for examination and treatment at the hospital.
“Every route is the same. there is only a shortage of drugs and equipment” reader static Demon comments.
States the current situation of medical facilities anhChinh Lo Vanwrote: “Recently, the story of lack of medicine and medical supplies has become hot at debate sessions of the National Assembly. There are opinions that this situation still occurs even at large hospitals like Viet Duc. What is the last line? What is the provincial line?
“Waiting for the policy mechanism, people will die first. My wife is being treated at the central level here and still has to buy surgical gauze, scalpels, bandages and everything from the line. The central level hospital is also the provincial level hospital. Waiting for approval to be approved, people still have to wait, but there is no need to wait for the disease. Not denying the effects of health insurance, but there are still many things to overcome,” Mr. Hai Khuat shared.
And from the perspective of a doctor who directly treats the patient. Mr. Nguyen Tuan Anh shares every day: “I am a foreign doctor at a provincial hospital and always want to have adequate and diverse supplies available. No one wants to have to wait for the patient to buy this or that without being sure it’s exactly what they need. Looking at the patient’s difficulties and added burden is also very sympathetic. What is needed now is the policy mechanism above, but the treating doctor cannot change this.”
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